Kiran too close to Kieran?

My partner is from Asia and we're thinking of using an Indian or Bengali name for a child - we're TTC. His older sister (also Anglo) is called Indira and pulls it off beautifully, so I'd like to try something similar for our child. I absolutely love Kiran (kee-ran) for either gender (i.e Kiran Desai), but we live in the United Kingdom and I fear it would be confused with Kieran (kier-an), which is extremely popular (and I don't like it myself). I don't mind having to correct people with pronunciation/spelling sometimes, but I wonder if you guys think everyone will assume it's an alternative spelling to Kieran.

I have a nephew named Kiran and he is constantly having to correct people because they think his name is Kieran. He's only 7, so it doesn't really bother him now, but it will probably annoy him when he's older. That being said, I think you should go for it. Kiran is such a beautiful name. An upside to it is that your child won't be Kieran #2 in all his/her classes. My name was mispronounced quite a bit when I was younger, but it didn't irritate me as much as when I had a class with someone of the same name.

I am married to an Indian and my MIL is named Kiran. But if I lived in scotland and wasn't I would assume it was an alternative spelling. For this reason I would try to find something else. Some mostly Indian names I find interesting are: